CSM Certified Scrum Master | Reykjavik, Iceland | March 6-17 | 2025
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CSM Certified Scrum Master in Reykjavik
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER COURSE DESCRIPTION
PREREQUISITE
We expect you to have some prior knowledge about Scrum and we expect you to have read the “Scrum Guide” on ScrumGuides.org prior to class. It would also be beneficial for you if you read one of Ken Schwaber’s books.
HOW TO REGISTER
Individuals wishing to attend this Certified Scrum Master class should register on this site.
CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER COURSE MATERIAL
Participants will receive printed and bounded course material at the first day of class. The material will be enhanced by more information thru exercises, videos and other media.
GOAL
Being a ScrumMaster demands a lot of skill and can at first sight look like a trivial challenge. However, once starting the journey to transform the organization there will be impediment after impediment that will challenge the implementation of Scrum. So to use Scrum, using “The Art of the Possible”, there needs to be skilled ScrumMasters to take on this challenge.
Each individual is trained to be able to assume the following responsibilities: Remove the barriers between development and business (ProductOwner) so the business directly drives development; Teach the business how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum; Improve the lives of the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment; Improve the productivity of the development team in any way possible; and, Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
TRAINING
The training is completed with several exercises. Be prepared for hands-on, hard work. The training will give you the feeling of Scrum itself.
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER COURSE
WHY AGILE
- Opacity of waterfall
- Emergence
- Processes
OVERVIEW OF SCRUM
- Agile Principles
- Brief History of Scrum
- Heart of Scrum
- Scrum Overview
- Emergency Procedure
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Why Accountabilities and not Roles
- Overview of Accountabilities
READY & DONE
- Why READY and DONE
- Advantage of READY and DONE
- How to create a definition of READY and DONE
PRODUCT BACKLOG
- Product Backlog Items (PBIs), User stories and other choices on the Product Backlog
- Backlog Meetings
- INVEST in your Product Backlog
- Estimating your PBI’s
RETROSPECTIVE
- Purpose of Retrospective
- Techniques for Retrospective
AGILE CONTRACT
- Traditional Contract
- Agile Contract
SCRUM TEAM
- Responsibilities of the Team Member
- Dysfunctional Team Member
SCRUM MASTER
- Responsibilities and mindset
- How to react in different scenarios
- Scrum Master impediment list
PRODUCT OWNER
- Description and responsibilities
- Character of a good Product Owner
- Product Owner team
DEVELOPER
- Composition and cross-functionality
- Organizing
- Distributed Teams
TECHNICAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Acceptance Test
- Exploratory Test
- Refactoring
- Pair Programming
- Mob Programming
- Swarming
SPRINT PLANNING
- Sprint Planning, how to get from the why and what, to the how
- How the team commit to the Sprint Goal
THE SPRINT
- Responsibilities in the sprint
- Updating progress
DAILY SCRUM
- Who can say what
- Why it is important the developers feel ownership
SPRINT REVIEW
- Purpose of meeting
- A review not a demo
ROAD MAP
- Allocating Sprints
- What to expect
SCRUM & AI
- How it will help the Scrum Team
JENS OSTERGAARD
Certified Scrum Trainer, Jens Ostergaard has successfully certified more than 10,000 people in OVER 28 countries!
Jens Ostergaard is the founder of the Scrum Training Institute. He is the First Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and one of the pioneering Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) worldwide. He is also an Agile Developer Consultant who helps organizations understand the fundamentals of Scrum, argue that organizations should keep Scrum as pure as possible until they fully understand the mechanism that drives development forward.
Jens Ostergaard was the first working Scrum Master in Denmark and became a CSM in Edinburgh in 2003. He became a CST through co-training with Ken Schwaber, a co-founder of Scrum, in Copenhagen in 2004. His wealth of experience in the Scrum field has been accentuated by co-training extensively with Jeff Sutherland, the founder of Scrum, providing participants in their training sessions with valuable insights and knowledge from two of the most experienced influential figures in the Scrum community. Jens have successfully certified over 10 000 people (see previous classes on website) and helped numerous companies on there agile journey. He is the longest serving CST, worldwide.
Jens Ostergaard was not only Denmark’s first working Scrum Master but also pioneered in conducting the first public Certified Scrum Master (CSM) classes across numerous regions, including Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Czechia, Australia, New Zealand, Nevada, and Florida, exemplifying his dedication to spreading Scrum knowledge globally.
Get certified in-person Scrum trainings by Jens Ostergaard. Jens has trained over 10,000 students at tech, start-up, and fortune 500 companies globally. Learn from the best at our in-person Scrum Master & Scrum Product Owner trainings in Iceland. This class is conducted in partnership with Akademias.